Category: Introducing

For more than thirty years, quoting characters from gangster pictures has become the norm in the United States. Even though crime films starring actors like Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney (Little Caesar, Angels with Dirty Faces) were popular in the…

While Hollywood has latched onto recent films like Ang Leeâ€™s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Jet Liâ€™s Heroâ€”trying to profit off of Hong Kongâ€™s unique style of film-makingâ€”many people are being introduced to the New School of Kung-Fu flicks without…

Comedy has always been part of the black community and with the revolution of the 60s, blacks were finally given a chance to shine in the media. From the Jeffersons to Girlfriends, black comedy shows have done well on tv,…

Almost everyone knows that â€œthe man that would risk his neck for his brother manâ€ is John Shaft, the title character of one of the most important and famous blaxploitation movies. Almost everyone knows Pam Grier as the sexy and…

The horror film has had a major presence in the world of film almost since the inception of the cinematic form. While it has been through many incarnations since its beginnings, the genre has always maintained its associations with the…

Never before have our delicate sensibilities been so rattled and questioned by the radical vision of a filmmakerâ€”one whose films we canâ€™t seem to stop admiring in disgust yet with such guttural and animalistic envy. Sure, most of us grew…